I took DH's pH ...

[zanacal]

Oh no sassy!

Wow purple, your DH is a good boy taking all his supps, lucky you

Don't panic Indira!

I took our combined pH last night (and I'm honestly going to stop taking pH very soon!) and it was about a 7, which isn't great but not hideous considering I hadn't used anything to lower pH 'down there' yet.

I was thinking about it and I reckon Sylk is a good addition to Aci-jel/Rephresh because it provides a shot of low pH right at the moment before the sperm arrive on the scene, and if you use it on DH then it's going to get spread about in all the nooks and crannies (if you see what I mean!). So, scrap what I said about adding Aci-jel after (which I wasn't completely comfortable with because I don't see what adding something right at the entrance is going to do deep inside!) - we'll still use Aci-jel before our attempt but we'll use Sylk as a lube and then I won't add anything after.

[rainbowflower]

pink how did the experiment go?

[Sassy]

Remind me the Ph of Sylk? Given I won't be ....ahem....aroused as much, sylk might be a good option and help with those nooks and crannies!

[pinkdreams]

sorry, last night didn't work out I had forgotten to soak the PH tester I just received before the first use. It's ready to go now so I'll try tonight

[atomic sagebrush]

I've never bothered taking DH's pH before but the opportunity arose (haha!) and, wowsers, it was a 10! This was the morning after he'd been drinking wine too which I guess lowers pH?!

Any ideas for something to lower his pH quickly and effectively? He's just started taking baby aspirin but so far I've only planned to give it to him 3 x times a week (same as me). He hates aspartame so I don't think I'll get much of that past him, except maybe on the evening before our attempt. Has anybody's DH taken cranberry supplements and how effective were they? I'm wondering if it's possible to take a higher dosage of them as opposed to the one low dosage aspirin which he can't have more of.

Thank you

Standard disclaimer - he may want to see a doctor to rule out infection. He doesn't need to disclose that his pH is high!!

Guys can tolerate baby aspirin at a higher dosage than ladies can, for the most part, so as long as he is tolerating it well (no bruising) he can safely take it every day. On IG, a lot of people take both cran and BA so if you were really concerned, you can give that a try. Personally I think it would be better to just use the RepHresh a little closer to when you DTD.

I strongly suspect the wine is what made his pH high. I don't think it's always as cut and dry as the websites make it out to be with pH. There's a lot of chemistry involved between when you eat/drink something and when it comes out.

[atomic sagebrush]

Wow that's high! I know its not always recommended but if its still that high around the attempt I'd be tempted to lower it manually externally and syringe it back in!

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Hey, ya gotta do what you gotta do, whether I "like" it or not.

[atomic sagebrush]

It briefly crossed my mind but I'm really not going down that route! We'll do what we can but I will probably stay away from even testing him again.

He has agreed to have a can of coke each day (not diet because he hates it so no aspartame but I believe coke is still very acidifying) and will take either cranberry or baby aspirin, whichever we decide is best for the job.

He's also agreed to no orange juice for a while but he's not happy about that! He's currently at Tesco looking for alternatives - I think he's going to try cranberry and buy some milkshake! He hasn't had orange juice for a couple of weeks though, so I don't think that's the culprit.

I hadn't planned on using anything after our attempt but perhaps I should add a touch of Aci-jel afterwards? At least I know there shouldn't be too much volume with all the frequent/recent releasing!

That is up to you of course, but with the FR I think it might be overkill.

I am wondering now if the superhigh levels of releasing could make his pH go up?? Like, his body might be trying to make sure that the few sperm left behind have a better shot at surviving???

[atomic sagebrush]

this might be controversial, but I'm not sure that RepHresh will be much help regardless - I saw a study recently saying that all swimmers that could fertilise the egg are through that cervix between 15 and 30 mins... if RepHresh takes longer than that to lower pH perhaps the relevant swimmers will be long gone by the time the RepHresh works...

Yes but the pH of the general vicinity will be lower than it would be otherwise because of the RepHresh, even if it doesn't have hours to work on the semen pH. The sperm will have to swim out of the semen and into the lower-than-normal-pH CM until they make it up into the cervix where whoever is left, will be safe.

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm sure I read on a study that most are already gone after something like 1.5 minutes! I think the Rephresh is helpful if you're going to DTD more than once, so if your pH rises because you've done it once and you're going to DTD the following day and you don't want to add any new gels or douche. Hopefully in that 24 hour period the Rephresh will have got your pH back down to 'normal' levels and also if you believe it's important to keep pH down between your cut-off, if you're doing one, and O. Like you though, I'm more concerned with making sure there's a blast of acidity right when the sperm first arrive on the scene, to lower sperm count, and I don't particularly care what my pH is for much longer than that!

So here's the plan, DH is going to have a can of coke (not diet but better than nothing!) each night with a double strength cranberry tablet and he's following this up with sugar free gum because he hates drinking/eating sugary things because he worries about his teeth (and that's as much aspartame as I can get past his lips!). He's also agreed to no orange juice leading up to our attempt. We're doing frequent release and we'll also make sure he's released within a few hours of our attempt so hopefully, even if his pH is on the high side, there won't actually be much semen. I'm also going to add a tiny bit of Aci-jel soon after we've DTD.

I agree that the tiny Elvises and Priscillas have left the building very shortly after ejaculation...I've read that we don't even need to prop hips for longer than 5 minutes really. That is why it makes more sense to me to use the Acijel BEFORE BD rather than afterwards. Other than that, I think your plan is very sound.

I personally like RepHresh after a cutoff because the conventional swaying wisdom sets forth the claim that you must keep your pH low every second until the egg is fertilized because X sperm "love" low pH. I don't believe that to be the case becasue the sperm vacate the premises shortly after arrival and I do not believe that the pH in your vjj can infiltrate and overcome the much higher pH of the EWCM that your body is churning out. But I figure, if it makes people feel better, at least we know that the RepHresh keeps working for three days so people don't have to go nutty nutkins over checking ph every 5minutes.

[atomic sagebrush]

Good luck!!! I think I may need to experiment with the rephresh, I'm going to get a "sample" from DH and add some rephresh to it and see how long it takes to lower PH if it does it at all. Now I'm curious

Thanks for doing that!!!